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Meeting The World With Heart
October 20-25, 2010 - Hamburg, Germany

This six-day retreat
is devoted
to practices of
wholehearted attention
and perceiving the
discoveries of the
listening body.

Within the bright fire
of the heart we free a strength of love
and imagination to
participate with the
profound gifts and needs
of this world.

We develop the
heart’s imagination,
which is loyal to the deeper unity of everything.
It can handle contradiction.

It can stay in the tension of being with “what is” AND simultaneously open
to new possibilities.

I weep with grief at the devastation in the world AND I dance wildly with passionate joy.

Many of us spend much of our energy protecting our tender, sensitive hearts
from being overwhelmed, and from further heart wounds.

Through perceptual exercises we will build heart body resources to build strength of heart,
to support having a tender, responsive heart.
We awaken our generative, full of passion, creative heart.

WHAT WILL WE DO?
Our emphasis is on the skills of intimacy–knowing and being known, loving and being loved–without obstruction.
In solo and partner work we develop the art of inquiry, witnessing, somatic resonance, and relational dialogue skills. Skills to feel, identify, process, and communicate our needs and emotions are developed.

EXPLORE MOVEMENT IN THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE - We move, feel, sound, breathe, slow down, listen, and rest. Through movement, perception and new coordination we strengthen the roots of our heart in our legs, feet and pelvis. We express what lives in our heart through the gestures of our hands, arms, and body.
BUILD SOMATIC RESOURCES - With perceptive tracking practices, we journey into our heart and body and build somatic resources to heal un-metabolized experiences, and discover new possibilities. We build trust in the wisdom of organismic intelligence, and deepen our capacity for grounded embodiment.

INQUIRE IN A CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY - Perceptual practices open the ways in which we attend and liberate unexamined habits of perception. The unknown in each of our hearts is deeply personal and intimately connected to the heart of the world. We will also explore night and day dreams pertaining to the heart.

For more information please contact: Anke Wagner - 49 30-6162-1300
Email: ankeyw@yahoo.de
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310 449-6653
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